HAHA!! I've grown up all the way through these eras (records - present day) and does no way the sony erikson come up even in the top 50!! The iphone and ipod wouldn't come in the top 50 either. As for walkman that in my book is the only thing Sony have made that is worth buying even though (like usual Sony) it was waaaay overpriced at release. There are essential purchases in electronics (CD, DVD, Video Players, Record Players, Tape Players) in the past. What are classed as pure gimmicks and NOT essential purchases are Blu-ray (just to play it in all it's video and audio glory you will need a $2000+ system!), IPOD(anything - much, much too fiddly and in no way is the average person going to be enticed by purchasing them). Too niche!
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
